i wish they could do it where i.s.i.s. is destroying monuments. >> reporter: the congressional medal as been won by sports star, soldiers and documents. but not soldiers like these. >> you can get the latest news and analysis on the website at aljazeera.com. >> we now have an actual humanitarian crisis on the border. >> there's a direct correlation between those dangerous places and where the unaccompanied youth came from. >> a political fire storm. tens of thousands of children from central america showed up on the border trying to enter the united states alone. >> you can't send your children up here and let them stay. >> the obama administration took

unprecedented measures to keep them out. on to honduras where violence is still forcing people out and talked to families being torn apart. this is the suciati river. hix it is where migrants cross from central america to the united states. these rafts transport goods and people across the border. it is a bustling black are

market. market. >> yeah, how do i get on just like this? okay. [ speaking spanish ] >> right now we're on the river in between mexico and guatemala. that's guatemala, that's mexico. this is where you would give your passport, passing from one country to the other. all these boats in the distance here everything happening here on the river is illegal. >> the majority of the people when they see you they say, can can you give me some money, i he haven't eat nothing. they say like they're hiding you know or they're running, the

people, they get killed. they want to kill them or something. >> chavez operates the rafts. he says many migrants are taking new routes now to avoid being captured. >> people are more afraid to cross the river now. i think there's another point to cross. but not here anymore, right here. it's dangerous already. >> reporter: on this day there were fewer migrants taking the risk so he took us south accreditation the border into gooment wherguatemala. we have crossed into guatemala and we are seeing if there are any migrants there. [ speaking spanish ]

>> tens of thousands of migrants pass through guatemala on their way to the u.s. each year. this shelter is sometimes the last place they stay before crossing the river. [ speaking spanish ] >> they won't allow us in to speak to people but this is such a common route it is not long before we meet somebody making the journey north. this 35-year-old guatemalan man says he was kicked out of the u.s. after ten years. he's already tried to enter the united states three times unsuccessfully. >> the crack down in mexico is real. under pressure from the u.s.,

mexican police have increased efforts to stop central american migrants long before they reach the u.s. border. it's part of a program called frontera sur. after powms declare president oa crisis of central american children trying to enter the u.s. the numbers are down by almost half of the this year. but the number of children being detained and deported under mexico's new plan is skyrocketing. up nearly 60% at the beginning of this year exaished t comparee same period in 2014. >> i think what is new is this effort, going after migrants or pursuing them in a way that mexico had not in a way before and making it more difficult for migrants to travel north and many times i think what we have

seen that has actually put them at greater risk. >> maureen meyer works for the washington office, she has concerns about what happens when migrants fleeing violent situations are detained. >> the big concern is that a lot of migrants that are leaving, a lot of people leaving central america probably qualify for protection. we are not necessarily talking about the traditional economic single male migrant who comes here to make money and sent home. wsend home. young people who are fleeing gangs, young girls fleeing being turned into prostitution. a lot of cases mexico has been returning people to the dangerous situations they were fleeing from. >> meyers says additional checkpoints and stepped up security have also pushed

migrants into different, more dangerous routes to the united states in their efforts to avoid authorities. >> migrants have been victims of horrific crimes in recent years, widespread kidnapping, sexual assault, being sold into slavery. a lot of these situations haven't gone away. in a lot of places they seem to exacerbate it. >> but young people like christian are still coming. he says he was attacked with a knife last night. >> can you describe what happened? >> the 18 yeer-year-old from el salvador is packed into a shelter near the border. entire families from central

america have stopped here for food and rest on their orion joy here to the u.s. >> what is the most difficult part? >> but people like drifnt who droppechristian whodropped out r sixth grade, keep coming, they have no choice. he says he was in a gang and can't go back. >> you're going to go tomorrow. >> in the morning he'll continue his trek. there's no way to know whether he'll make it.

for the hundreds of other young people, their journey ends here in tapachula, mexico. from high up on a mountain this is a rare look inside the largest detention center in latin america. there are hundreds in this facility. some children without their parents waiting to be returned home or for a chance at asylum. most people stay only a few days and nights. it's nearly midnight. and for many, the long journey home begins under the cover of darkness. what we're waiting for is any minute now buses are going to be showing up here. the people who have been detained from central america are going to be deported back where they came from.

it takes only a few minutes, and this bus is headed back to honduras, a 12-hour drive. any chance at making it to the united states is over. at least for now. coming up: i travel to honduras to san pedro sula to see firsthand why children are leaving and what happens when they're sent back.

>> san pedro sula honduras one of the most violent cities in the world. it's thursday night not quite 8:00 p.m. and this is the scene a few blocks there our hotel. we just got a call that there was another murder here in san pedro sula. from the moment we got to honduras people were telling us how dangerous and deadly this place can be. under that tarp there, that's the fourth murder of today. the victim, still bleeding when we arrived, was shot in the head and threw into a ditch. the locals presume the normal, gang violence. investigators are on the scene. this morgue person has just arrived, what he they're going to do is start investigating the

body. what they're going to do is count how many bu bullet holes e has, whether he has been tortured, and then they're going to move the body out of here. police told us they see at least 15 killings like this every week. in a city ranked as the most murder oust in the world. many people are fleeing because of the persistent violence here. but the mexican crack downed iss sending so many back home. we know the bus is arriving shortly so we're heading to the station to see if we can catch the migrants when they arrive. for the few relatives at the government run shelter, the anticipation was great.

many of them were prepared to never see their children again. but they will get another chance. cameras aren't allowed up close but so many tiny feet skip off the buses coming from the migrant station in tapachula, mexico. children deported back to a country they thought they'd never return to. some of the most visible examples of mexico's migrant crack down. the buses arrive here three times a week. it took that bus 12 hours to get here from mexico but just less than five minutes to unload. what's happening now, everybody is in that room. they're being processed, it could take up to an hour and a half. we're told there's up to 30 unaccompanied minors on this bus. >> this 24-year-old woman and

eight-year-old child said they almost made it to the u.s. border. i ask them will they try again? very soon she tells me. they are trying again, too, tomorrow, he says. as deportees streamed out of the shelter, we met 17-year-old katia and her mother. i asked her why she sent her daughter on the journey north, alone. >> her shirt is filled with good-bye messages from her friends. people she thought she might not see again. are you going to try again? >> why did you want to go to the u.s?

we arranged to meet katia the next day. this is area where katia lifts. it's much too dangerous for us to take our camera equipment inside because it's controlled by gangs. so we decided to meet her someplace else. cat yakatia paid a coyote $4500o help her flees from her home country. what was the plan when you crossed the border, were you going to turn yourself in?

>> can you leave the house to have fun? >> katia's father is dead. her mother said there's no future for her daughter here. she wants her to go north even though it means making a dangerous journey with a smuggler. >> it could be possible this is the last:00 you see your mother. is it worth it?

>> still ahead: when will the crisis at the border end and a tearful good-bye. the 15-year-old girl trying to flee her country. her family's fears if she stays in honduras.

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deported from the country here are from honduras. it is not hard to understand why so many want to leave. while so many want to escape violence, many others just look for the opportunity to have a better life. more than 65% of families living in honduras are living in poverty. >> so many people are forced to flee. >> mawr erimaureen meyer says tw of migrants is not getting better any time soon. >> i think in el salvador in particular we have seen a gradual increase in homicide rates up to 90 per 100,000. >> some are leaving to reunite with family that fled years earlier.

we're heading to visit one of those young people hoping one day to make it to the united states. for this 15-year-old, who doesn't want to give her name, the next journey out of honduras can't come soon enough. she was deported by mexican authorities back to san pedro sula where she's staying with relatives. >> this is your mother.

she's very pretty. >> she hasn't seen her mother who now lives in the u.s. since she was 3. >> why would you want to leave? risk all this stuff just to go? >> what would you say to your mother?

>> do you want to try and cross the border again? >> leaving again to be with her mother means going through another painful good-bye with her aunt, the woman who raised her. how hard will it be to say good-bye again? >> i can say that my niece is my life. is my life. and when i say --

>> the teen's aunt says while it's hard to say good-bye, she is concerned about what could happen to her niece if she stays. >> gangs?

>> when she tries to reach the u.s. for a second time, it's possible she will never see her aunt again. >> it's a bad moment for me. because i love so much her. and -- but i think that she was the happy with her mom and her brother in u.s.a. and maybe her life will be better, better life. >> how much would you miss your aunties?

>> there are hundreds of others like her. children and teenagers willing to risk it all for a chance at a life in the united states. though the immigration and customs will try to stop them, many say they will never stop trying.

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